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A new wallpaper, finally!

Post by Aken_Bosch » Sun, 2. Mar 08, 18:02

Here I made it again, it has become a lot more difficult with my job and everyday problems, but I found the time anyway :)

"Departures"

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It's a 16:10 wallpaper (my new monitor's ratio), but there's also a 4:3 version in my gallery if you are interested...
Inspiration (well, a lot more than inspiration, almost everything but the background in fact) came from this screenshot I made for the last image contest of the Italian forum....
...I won. Yuppiiiii :P

Hope working on my new 20" lcd has given its results...if you say the original screen is better than the remake, i'll take it as a personal offence and won't speak to you anymore :D

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Post by fiksal » Mon, 3. Mar 08, 19:41

hehe, very good
nice choice of shadows and colors
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Post by Terre » Mon, 3. Mar 08, 21:14

Quality. :)
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Post by Snowship » Tue, 4. Mar 08, 00:20

Nice work there Aken :wink: :D
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Post by silenced » Tue, 4. Mar 08, 00:31

if the ingame graphic would be as on your wallpaper ... awesome =)
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Post by fiksal » Tue, 4. Mar 08, 00:40

silenced wrote:if the ingame graphic would be as on your wallpaper ... awesome =)
aside from an artistic touch,
all you got to do is - add more darkness

X3 is too colorful in places. Space is not sufficiently dark.
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Post by Aken_Bosch » Fri, 7. Mar 08, 22:41

Thanks all :wink:
fiksal wrote:aside from an artistic touch,
all you got to do is - add more darkness

X3 is too colorful in places. Space is not sufficiently dark.
Yep, that's mostly true, but I think that adding a bit more of colour/light than the real thing, often gives just that "artistic touch" to some images...

Apart from that, about my pics, it's just that I'm still having lots of problems finding the right light/hue levels for the images, to be seen as good on every monitor as I see them on mine :|...


(About that last comment...I think to have screwed up a bit on english grammar...ops :oops: ...)
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Post by SOTS » Fri, 7. Mar 08, 22:53

Minor screw up or no minor screw up, it was perfectly understandable
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But it doesn't really matter :P just keep churning them out, people won't mind lol.
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Post by fiksal » Fri, 7. Mar 08, 23:01

Aken_Bosch wrote:Thanks all :wink:
fiksal wrote:aside from an artistic touch,
all you got to do is - add more darkness

X3 is too colorful in places. Space is not sufficiently dark.
Yep, that's mostly true, but I think that adding a bit more of colour/light than the real thing, often gives just that "artistic touch" to some images...
yep, I was referring to X3's screenshot, not your wallpaper though
Aken_Bosch wrote: Apart from that, about my pics, it's just that I'm still having lots of problems finding the right light/hue levels for the images, to be seen as good on every monitor as I see them on mine :|...
that's kinda a crapshoot.
I noticed that my new LCD is capable of much deeper contrast levels than old CRT. Since I like the look of the LCD better, I just go with that :)

would have helped to have several brand name monitors on default settings... but :)
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Post by Aken_Bosch » Fri, 7. Mar 08, 23:43

fiksal wrote:would have helped to have several brand name monitors on default settings... but :)
It's not about money, it's that I don't have enough free space on my desk :P
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Post by Alex Vanderbilt » Sat, 8. Mar 08, 10:59

Hey Aken_Bosch

like your last wallpaper this is also a very impressive work :) :thumb_up:
Could not you try at one of your next works something with an Odysseus or a Paranid Trading Dock? ^^^
Their shapes are in my opinion very suitable for anything ... well, do not want to prescribe something. I think you will find an impressive situation for the objects :)

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Post by Arsaneus » Sat, 8. Mar 08, 11:00

Aken_Bosch wrote:
fiksal wrote:would have helped to have several brand name monitors on default settings... but :)
It's not about money, it's that I don't have enough free space on my desk :P
Haha I know that... only got 2 different 19" here for exactly that purpose but it's still not enough! No free space though.

Oh and nice pic as always :)
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Post by Aken_Bosch » Sat, 8. Mar 08, 14:26

Alex Vanderbilt wrote: Could not you try at one of your next works something with an Odysseus or a Paranid Trading Dock? ^^^
Their shapes are in my opinion very suitable for anything ... well, do not want to prescribe something. I think you will find an impressive situation for the objects :)
Agree, I've always liked a lot the shape of paranid trading dock (it'd have been awesome also as a ship more than a station)....but still had not find a nice (and easy :P ) idea to put it in something...
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